In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
SALMAN RUSHDIEI stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
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I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
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When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It’s very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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